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Professor Dr. Stefan Scheu

Address Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Johann-Friedrich-Blumenbach-Institut für Zoologie und Anthropologie
Arbeitsgruppe Tierökologie
Untere Karspüle 2
37073 Göttingen

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - Coupling soil physics and soil food web ecology to unravel how soil habitat structure shape trophic interactions and carbon dynamics (Research Grants)
  - Trait-based terrestrial consumer metacommunities in space and time (Research Units)
  - Soil fauna as drivers of the architecture of forest floors (Research Units)
  - Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land-use intensity in forest systems (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - SP11: Networks and energy fluxes (Research Units)
  - Responses of above- and belowground food webs to the conversion of tropical rainforest to plantation systems (Research Grants)
  - Arthropod communities of forest ecosystems on Changbai Mountain, Northeast China: Changes in the trophic structure of soil and canopy food webs from temperate to boreal forests and the channelling of energy through them (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Wirkung fluktuierender Temperaturverläufe auf Struktur und Funktion des Bodensystems (Research Grants)
  - Stabilisation und Mobilisation organischer Substanz durch Regenwürmer (Priority Programmes)
  - Genotypische Diversität sexueller und parthenogenetischer Hornmilben (Oribatida) (Research Grants)
  - Cursorial spiders (Lycosidae) as generalist predators in a forest-pasture gradient: Phenology, regulating factors and trophic position (Research Grants)
  - Bedeutung von Spinnen als Antagonisten von Phytophagen in biologisch-organisch und konventionell bewirtschafteten Agrarsystemen (Research Grants)
  - Funktion des Zersetzersystems für die Kontrolle von Phytophagen durch generalistische Prädatoren in Agrarsystemen (Research Grants)
  - Einfluss von Collembolen auf die Konkurrenz zwischen Pflanzen in Grasland-Modellsystemen (Research Grants)
  - Biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles: a search for mechanisms across ecosystems (acronym: BioCycle) (EuroDIVERSITY 249) (Research Grants)
  - Alter, Phylogenie und genetische Diversität von parthenogenetischen Oribatiden-Arten (Research Grants)
  - Decomposer - interaction webs and the effect of belowground biota for ecosystem processes (Research Units)
  - Multitrophic Interactions with Oaks (Research Grants)
  - The soil fauna of a tropical montane rain forest: regulatory forces and functioning in the decomposer system (Research Units)
  - Genetische Diversität bei sexueller und parthenogenetischen Bodenarthropoden Oribatida und Collembola): die Bedeutung kryptischer Refugien (Research Grants)
  - Carbon flux through the soil animal food web: meso- and macrofauna (Research Units)
  - Coordination (Research Units)
  - Plant - soil fauna interactions: soil feedback mechanisms in grassland of different diversity (Research Units)
  - The soil animal community as indicator of changes in the structure and functioning of Andean ecosystems with altitude and nutrient input (Research Grants)
  - Changes in soil food web structure of the decomposer system with land use intensity in forest systems (Infrastructure Priority Programmes)
  - Consumer community structure and stability (Research Units)
  - Managing soil biodiversity and ecosystem services in agroecosystems across Europe under climate change (SOILCLIM) (Research Grants)
  - Collembola (Arthropoda) communities of forest ecosystems in Changbai Mountain, northeast China: Trophic structure, changes with altitude and response to increased temperature (Research Grants)
  - Multi-trophic energy fluxes in soil food webs along plant diversity–productivity gradients (Research Units)
As Spokesperson
- Completed projects
  - SFB 990: Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems (Sumatra, Indonesia) (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Researcher
- Current projects
  - GRK 2300: Enrichment of European beech forests with conifers: impacts of functional traits on ecosystem functioning (EnriCo) (Research Training Groups)
  - GRK 2984: Evolutionary Genomics: Consequences of Biodiverse Reproductive Systems (EvoReSt) (Research Training Groups)
- Completed projects
  - GRK 340: Communication in Biological Systems: From the Molecule to the Organism in the Environment (Research Training Groups)
  - GRK 1086: The Role of Biodiversity für Biogeochemical Cycles and Biotic Interactions in Temperate Deciduous Forests (Research Training Groups)
As Project Head
- Completed projects
  - Structure and functioning of the decomposer system in lowland rainforest transformation systems (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Central Tasks of the Collaborative Research Centre (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Central Scientific Service Project (Collaborative Research Centres)
As Participating Person
- Completed projects
  - Muster und Ursachen der Dicht und Diversität von Boden-Mikroarthropoden und der Boden-Mikrofauna in einem tropischen Berg-Regenwald (Ecuador) (Research Units)
  - Sexuelle Reproduktion in einer Welt mit strukturierten Ressourcen (Research Grants)
  - Konsequenzen des Artensterbens in komplexen Nahrungsnetzen (Research Grants)
  - Facilitation of biodiversity by shelter effects of Pinus patula and Alnus acuminata in montane ecosystems of South Ecuador (Research Grants)
As Co-Investigator
- Completed projects
  - Consumer community structure and ecosystem functioning (Research Units)

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